David
My gripe is the object pascal inconsistency that allows classes in the
same unit to reference 'private' properties which leads to these sort of
problems
They could have exposted the list in this case
TTFN
Neven
----- Original Message -----
From: David Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2000 15:58
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sorting a Collection
> Frustrating.
>
> Does anyone else find that Borland are a bit too fanatical about hiding
> things away as private declarations?
>
> I've lost track of the number of times I wanted to extend something only
to
> find the internal bits I needed were private. Sometimes you can get around
> it, but it's never as elegant as it could be. Would it hurt to have a few
> more things visible - perhaps a few read only protected properties would
do?
>
> Just an idea...
>
> David.
> DB Solutions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:44 PM
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Sorting a Collection
>
>
> > Good point - the FList field of a TCollection is private and there is
> > neither a way of getting to it nor triggering its Sort function.
> >
> > You could either write your own QSort (or bubble sort depending on your
> > style) to process your collection, or you could copy the collection
items
> > into a TList, call TList.Sort and copy them back to the collection.
(ooh
> > nasty)
> >
> > Maybe you really wanted to use a Tlist in the first place? (:
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
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> > > Sent: Friday, 22 September 2000 3:11
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> > > Subject: [DUG]: Sorting a Collection
> > >
> > >
> > > HI all.
> > >
> > > how does one got about sorting a Collection ?
> > > I want to do it based on a Numberic value.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
> > >
> > >
> > >
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